Variety‘s marketing chief Madelyn Hammond showed kindness to me during my lost baggage limbo during the Cannes Film Festival. I especially appreciated her giving me a couple of Variety T-shirts to wear plus a Variety umbrella. So here’s to a good friend — Madeline and Bono at the Creative Coalition party in Cannes that Variety sponsored last week.
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